Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 21 March 2009

Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week

issue 21 March 2009

Monday

V exciting! Our new Apology and Regret Strategy is such a success we are going to expand it. Jed says we’ve really set the agenda with some groundbreaking grovelling which has made Gordon look like a horrid grump who can’t own up when he’s as guilty as a puppy sitting next to a pile of doo-doo. Or should that be do-do?

By contrast Dave is a man of towering integrity who is not afraid to say when something he’s had nothing to do-do with has gone horribly wrong. Just as when he apologised manfully for the slave trade, Our Leader’s Apology For The Recession has blazed a trail in taking responsibility for the actions of others which have resulted in disasters we could never have foreseen or prevented. Am going for a horizontal power-think on the Ikea beanbags in the Austerity Room to see if I can’t come up with some more things that are nothing to do with us which we are deeply sorry for.

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